The 2025 fall inshore shrimp season will close in a portion of state waters next week, in order to protect undergrown shrimp.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) – Genetic testing of seafood served at the recent Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in Morgan City found four out of five vendors evaluated were serving ...

Louisiana sets to close fall inshore shrimp season on December 15 in certain areas to protect undersized white shrimp.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Every food vendor at the Louisiana Shrimp Festival and Shrimp Aid was verified as serving 100% local, wild-caught Gulf shrimp for the second consecutive year. According to SeaD ...

CUT OFF (WVUE) - Due to years of increasing shrimp imports, lax testing of imports and rising costs of diesel fuel, Louisiana’s shrimpers say they’re in dire straits, and the entire shrimping industry ...

A state lawmaker has issued a scathing rebuke of what she characterized as an embarrassing and “misleading” response from the Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival after the Illuminator reported that ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A new study shows Louisiana restaurants have advertised authentic gulf shrimp when they were imported. Genetic testing this year shows 33% of shrimp served at Louisiana ...

MORE EMPLOYEES WITH HIS NEW CONTRACT. WELL, NEW THIS MORNING, IT IS A BIG WIN FOR LOUISIANA SHRIMPERS AS THE GOVERNOR HAS NOW AGREED TO TAKE THE NEEDS OF LOCAL FISHERMEN ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP, TO OUR ...

Looking at the abundance and size of Louisiana white and brown shrimp before and after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a scientific paper published Wednesday said the amount of shrimp ...

One Louisiana seafood festival has done a better job of living up to its name. In a complete turnaround from last year, all seven vendors sampled at the Morgan City Shrimp and Petroleum Festival ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana Shrimp Industry struggles as more imports from foreign countries come in. A big part of Louisiana is the shrimp industry, but the Louisiana Shrimp Taskforce worries ...

The Louisiana shrimp harvest was slightly down in January and February compared to historic averages, but the price per pound in the Gulf of Mexico was much higher, according to preliminary National ...